Health in your hands

As societies get increasingly accustomed to new technologies, innovators in healthcare and the creative industry are challenged in unlocking technologies for a certain group of people.

Marlies Drives (surgeon, AMC) thinks that both doctors and patients can greatly benefit from apps and other mobile technologies. She herself is experimenting in the operating room with Google Glass.

Is mobile technology outside the hospital doors fully used to improve people’s health. E-health was previously the domain of large companies and research institutions but is now becoming increasingly the focus of the creative industry and smaller enterprises.